Media Argumentation - Dialectic, Persuasion, and Rhetoric

Media Argumentation: Dialect, Persuasion

📁 Media Argumentation: Dialect, Persuasion and Rhetoric

✍ Douglas Walton 📂 Library 📅 2007 🏛 Cambridge University Press 🌐 English

Media argumentation is a powerful force in our lives. From political speeches to television commercials to war propaganda, it can effectively mobilize political action, influence the public, and market products. This book presents a new and systematic way of thinking about the influence of mass me

Media Argumentation: Dialect, Persuasion

📁 Media Argumentation: Dialect, Persuasion and Rhetoric

✍ Douglas Walton 📂 Library 📅 2007 🏛 Cambridge University Press 🌐 English

Argumentation theory finds warrant for its claim to analytic superiority from the idea that we naturally evaluate the relative strength of arguments from the standpoint of conventionally established, objective criteria, and not by transposing arguments into deductive schemae and evaluating for valid

Argument and Persuasion in Descartes' Me

📁 Argument and Persuasion in Descartes' Meditations

✍ David Cunning 📂 Library 📅 2010 🏛 Oxford University Press, USA 🌐 English

Descartes' <em>Meditations on First Philosophy</em> has proven to be not only one of the canonical texts of Western philosophy, but also the site of a great deal of interpretive activity in scholarship on the history of early modern philosophy over the last two decades. David Cunning's monograph pr

Dialectic and Rhetoric: The Warp and Woo

📁 Dialectic and Rhetoric: The Warp and Woof of Argumentation Analysis

✍ Frans H. van Eemeren, Peter Houtlosser (auth.), Frans H. Van Eemeren, Peter Hout 📂 Library 📅 2002 🏛 Springer Netherlands 🌐 English

<p>In 1999 we invited a small number of colleagues to take part in a colloquium - voted to the analysis of argumentative discourse from two kinds of perspective: a dialectical and a rhetorical perspective. Our intention was to start a thorough disc- sion on the commonalities and differences between

Multimodal Argumentation and Rhetoric in

📁 Multimodal Argumentation and Rhetoric in Media Genres

✍ Assimakis Tseronis; Charles Forceville 📂 Library 📅 2017 🏛 John Benjamins Publishing Company 🌐 English

This collection advances the study of context-dependent characteristics of argumentative discourse by examining a variety of media genres in which text and image (and other semiotic modes) combine to create meaning. The chapters have been written by an international group of senior and junior schola

Renaissance Argument: Valla and Agricola

📁 Renaissance Argument: Valla and Agricola in the Traditions of Rhetoric and Dialectic

✍ Peter Mack 📂 Library 📅 1993 🏛 E. J. Brill 🌐 English

This book presents a new interpretation of the two most innovative renaissance works on the use of language, Lorenzo Valla's 'Repastinatio dialecticae et philosophiae' (1439) and Rudolph Agricola's 'De inventione dialectica' (1479). Mack attempts to find a path through the controversies which have r